Multilingual technical documentation

Multilingual product documentation is about much more than simply meeting statutory requirements. Consistent and clearly structured documentation in the languages of your target customers forms a vital component of your products, adding value and giving you an important competitive edge in international markets!

Advice and quotation

LÓPEZ-EBRI Fachübersetzungen GmbH offers not only professional translations, but also the added benefit of a reliable procedure for continuous translation workflow that will significantly cut your costs.

We provide individual project management, and will support you throughout the implementation of your multilingual documentation. We will consult with you or, where appropriate, with your technical editors direct. Ideally you should take advantage of our long experience in this complex field at the planning phase of your multilingual translation projects.

The right technical interfaces

We are able to translate your documents from all standard file formats, operating with Mac, Windows and Linux. Furthermore, we provide a complete service, in both linguistic and technical terms – with a translation process certified to ISO 9001 and DIN EN 15038 – and are equally at home with handling content from XML-based content management systems.

Translation of content from XML-based content management systems

In order to comply with current statutory requirements, many companies produce their manuals and technical documentation in 20 or more languages simultaneously.

This means that extremely efficient and well structured translation processes are vital to keep translation costs at an acceptable level. In a streamlined translation process for CMS content (e.g. Schema), only new or modified text should need to be translated. Achieving this demands consistent and professional use of translation memory systems such as Trados or Across. If they are well populated and maintained, these systems can be optimally utilised and contribute to minimising your translation costs. The translated content can then be quickly imported back into your CMS in high quality.

The TechDoc department at LÓPEZ-EBRI Fachübersetzungen GmbH specialises in this entire field and has vast experience in providing customised solutions.

The TechDoc department at LÓPEZ-EBRI GmbH – an all-round service for our customers

The expertise of the TechDoc department at LÓPEZ-EBRI Fachübersetzungen GmbH is focused on professional production of multilingual technical documentation.
The range of services provided by this department include:

Pre-print stage

Our DTP specialists are always pleased to work with your open layout files. This means that translations of captions, diagrams and other graphics can be directly integrated. We then supply you with print-optimised files ready for passing straight to your printers.

LÓPEZ-EBRI is a member of tekom

The European Association for Technical Communication - tekom Europe e.V. is the largest professional association for technical communication worldwide.

It was founded in November 2013 in Wiesbaden, Germany by representatives of the Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation - tekom e.V. and its former country groups as well as from the Italian association COM&TEC.

tekom Europe connects more than 8,500 professionals who are active in technical communication and related fields.

The main task of the association is to represent the interests of creators and users of user information at a European level. tekom Europe supports important EU objectives such as improving the training of young people, the employability and mobility of workers as well as the competitiveness of the European economy in general.

LÓPEZ-EBRI is a certified service provider for the content management system SCHEMA ST4

The XML-based content management system Schema ST4 manages multilingual documentation. Our personnel are specially trained in the processing of translation files from this system – especially when a translation memory system is used.